What part of "illegal" does Rep. Hostettler not understand? According to Congressional Quarterly, in April 2004, Rep. John Hostettler (the chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee) was detained for carrying a loaded firearm inside an airport. He called the incident a "stupid mistake," explaining that he had carried the gun while traveling through his district during a congressional recess and forgot it was in his bag. Hostettler pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed deadly weapon and received a 60-day suspended sentence. Rep. Hostettler's own actions appear to contradict his hardline no-holds-barred enforcement approach towards immigration. Although he excuses his breaking of the law as a mistake, his actions indicate that some laws are OK to break and others are not. Perhaps Rep. Hostettler should reflect on whether undocumented aliens or our nation's broken immigration system is at fault.

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Dear Editor:
While we have very different views on the number of immigrants this country can absorb, I agree with Ali Alexander's letter's comments (07/10/06 ID) that this issue is one for legitimate discussion and I respect his letter's approach. However, R.L. Ranger's letter (07/10/06 ID), while full of "ad hominem" (or "ad feminam"?) attacks on Linda Chavez's affiliations and Latino heritage, does not actually provide much in the way of particulars about why her arguments on any of the points she mentions are wrong. While I am not an economist, and did not claim that Lina Chavez has a monopoly on the truth, I am glad to see that Mr. Ranger's letter agrees that she at least makes an 'attempt' to be fair." It is difficult to say the same about Congressmen Tom Tancredo and J.D. Hayworth. These two, in my opinion, are authorities about Latino immigration only in the same sense that former Alabama Governor George Wallace and and former Mississippi Senator James Eastland were "authorities" about the African-American civil rights movement. As for Miguel Michael D's letter (07/10/06 ID), even if I were a believer in zero immigration levels, I would still be shocked and outraged at the views in his letter, which are so far beyond racist that they do not deserve to be dignified with any further comment.

Roger Algase, Esq.
New York, NY

Dear Editor:
Re: Ms. Shaw's (07/10/06 ID) letter. And while we're "thanking" the illegal aliens for being so kind as to work for low wages, should we also thank them for accepting the education for their kids that our tax dollars pay for and the "free" medical care provided to them? For the increased welfare burden that we members of the middle class have, because our own native poor now find it harder to get decent jobs that will get them off welfare? I believe laborers should be paid what their work is worth, even if that means the consumer has to pay more for the product. As it is, those of us who don't eat apples, or use the products and services Ms. Shaw mentions, are subsidizing not only illegal aliens and their employers, but the consumers of those goods and services.

Ali Alexander

Dear Editor:
Responding to David D. Murray's letter (07/07/06 ID), why is it that people on this subject call it immigration? The correct term is illegal aliens, reaction from many Americans is because they either over-stayed their visas or crossed our borders illegally, use fraudulent documents of which many Americans are finding their id's and ss#'s stolen and used (making their lives hell, smuggling of humans and drugs., gangs and gang wars, We as Americans have every right and protection under the constitution of our Country to be protected from all this felonious activities chaos, mayhem and people who jumped ahead of people waiting to come here legally. The President says they will go to the back of the line…where is that line? I would bet millions of foreigners would pay a thousand dollars to get in that line..

S.Courter

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